You Make Me Feel Like Dancing

"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
Single by Leo Sayer
from the album Endless Flight
B-side"Magdalena"
ReleasedOctober 1976
Genre
Length3:41
2:50 (7″ version)
LabelChrysalis (UK)
Warner Bros. (US)
Songwriters
[2][3]
ProducerRichard Perry
Leo Sayer singles chronology
"Moonlighting"
(1975)		 "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing"
(1976)		 "When I Need You"
(1977)
Music Video
"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" on YouTube

"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" is a song by the English singer Leo Sayer, taken from his 1976 album Endless Flight. It reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart,[4] making it his first top single in the United States, and reached number two on the UK singles chart.[5] Billboard ranked it the number 13 song of 1977.

Credited songwriters Sayer and Vini Poncia won a Grammy Award for the song in 1978 for Best R&B Song. Ray Parker Jr, who was a session musician at the time, has stated that he was the original songwriter and that when he gave the tune as a demo, his accreditation as such was missed.[6] "It's not Leo's fault," Parker told Variety. "He tried to cut six or seven more of my songs just because he felt so bad."[6]

Like other Sayer songs from that time, it features extensive use of the singer's falsetto voice, a very popular vocal register in disco-era songs. Sayer performed the song in the thirteenth episode of the second season of "Saturday Night Live" and the second episode of season 3 of The Muppet Show.

Personnel

Chart performance

Cover versions

References

  1. ↑ Smith, Troy L. (14 December 2021). "Every No. 1 song of the 1970s ranked from worst to best". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
  2. ↑ "Leo Sayer - You Make Me Feel Like Dancing / Magdalena (Vinyl) at Discogs". Discogs.com. 1976. Retrieved 2014-07-14.
  3. ↑ "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing by Leo Sayer Songfacts". Songfacts.com. Retrieved 2025-02-09.
  4. ↑ Bronson, Fred (2003). The Billboard Book of #1 Hits, 5th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  5. 1 2 "Leo Sayer - Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  6. 1 2 Helligar, Jeremy (August 11, 2020). "How Ray Parker Jr. Got Cheated Out of a Grammy for a No. 1 Hit". Variety. Retrieved March 20, 2024.
  7. ↑ Steffen Hung. "Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)". Australian-charts.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  8. 1 2 "National Top 100 Singles for 1976". Kent Music Report. 27 December 1976. Retrieved 15 January 2022 – via Imgur.
  9. ↑ "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Image 5179". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "Top RPM Singles: Image 5163a". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  11. ↑ "Leo Sayer | IRMA". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  12. ↑ "Leo Sayer – You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" (in Dutch). Single Top 100.
  13. ↑ "Leo Sayer – You Make Me Feel Like Dancing". Top 40 Singles.
  14. ↑ "SA Charts 1965–March 1989". Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  15. ↑ "Leo Sayer – You Make Me Feel Like Dancing". Singles Top 100.
  16. ↑ Swiss Charts Archive. 15 February 1977.
  17. ↑ "Official Singles Chart on 14/11/1976 – Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  18. ↑ "Leo Sayer Chart History (Adult Contemporary)". Billboard.
  19. ↑ "Leo Sayer Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
  20. ↑ "Leo Sayer Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  21. ↑ "Offizielle Deutsche Charts (West Germany)" (in German). GfK Entertainment charts. To see the peak chart position, click 'TITEL VON', followed by the artist's name.
  22. ↑ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
  23. ↑ "Kent Music Report No 183 – 26 December 1977 > National Top 100 Singles for 1977". Kent Music Report. Retrieved 8 January 2022 – via Imgur.com.
  24. ↑ "Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada". Bac-lac.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  25. ↑ "Top Selling Singles of 1977 | The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Nztop40.co.nz. 1977-12-31. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  26. ↑ "Top 100 Hits of 1977/Top 100 Songs of 1977". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-12.
  27. ↑ "Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart". Billboard. Retrieved 10 December 2018.
This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.